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...area of surgery has the anesthesiologist played a more vital role than in operations inside the heart. Ten or 15 years ago, little or nothing could be done for the patient with a constricted mitral valve (usually the result of rheumatic fever). Then surgeons at .Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital devised a finger-tip knife for opening the valves. The trick was to do it without killing the patient...
...their hearts, at best always on the point of failure, showed signs of stopping during the drastic operation, Dr. Keown was ready with a battery of revivers. The surgeon would work better without the nagging fear and responsibility for the patient's minute-to-minute reactions. The Hahnemann team's technique has already saved thousands of lives and is becoming standard the world around...
Last month doctors at the Cleveland Clinic sent Judith to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. There she was given a general anesthetic and put in an ordinary, kitchen-type freezer 6 ft. long. Doctors and nurses kept watch on her as her temperature began to drop. Surgeon Charles P. Bailey hoped that it would go down to 80°, but after twelve hours it had leveled off at 88°, and he decided to operate...
...technique for closing an opening in the heart's septum was standard; what was new was the freezing to slow the circulation and give the surgeons more time. The idea came to the Hahnemann surgeons after years of working on an artificial heart-lung machine. They could not get it to do the whole job of carrying a patient's circulation and oxygenating his blood. They reasoned that if they could cut down the body's demand for blood by lowering its temperature, the machine might be adequate. Then it dawned on them: perhaps the low temperature...
...first human patient on whom they operated (after tests on animals) died because her heart drew in air. Judith was Hahnemann's second patient. A Minneapolis team operated successfully on a five-year-old girl, chilled in a blanket laced with coils containing frigid alcohol. Last week Dr. Bailey did his third operation, chilling a year-old baby in a blanket...